June 10, 2016 / mintcustard

Corgi biscuits fit for The Queen.

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Red, white and blue corgi biscuits for the Queen’s birthday.

What could be more British than a cup of tea and a biscuit? A biscuit made to honour The Queen and decorated in red, white and blue? Especially if that biscuit was made for to celebrate a very special birthday too.

You should all know by now my weakness for a shaped cookie cutter, so when I saw that Sainsburys had made a corgi shaped cutter as part of their Queen’s birthday celebration stock, I knew it had to be mine.

I am no artist so creating those beautiful biscuits with run out icing and piped features isn’t happening anytime soon. Best I stick to a dab of glace icing and a fistful of sprinkles. Every party needs sprinkles, especially The Queen’s.

Corgi biscuits – Ingredients.

Corgi biscuit ingredients

1 corgi cutter (Sainsburys) or a crown cutter would do and I’m sure these are more widely available.

150g plain flour

100g softened butter

50g caster sugar

icing sugar

red, white and blue sprinkles.

How to…..

Preheat the oven to 160c
Beat together the butter and sugar using a wooden spoon.
Using the same spoon mix in the flour.If it gets hard going use your hands to help.
Once a dough is formed leave to rest at room temperature for 20 minutes or so.
Roll the dough out to the a little more than the thickness of a pound coin.
Cut out your shape and place on a parchment line baking tray.
Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown.

Corgi biscuits cooling before icing.

Allow to cool completely on a wire tray.
Mix up the icing sugar with a little water to a thickish consistency. Thick enough to spread but too thick to pipe.
Cover the biscuits in icing.
Dip the iced biscuits into the sprinkles and press to make the sprinkles stick.

Put on the kettle, make a pot of tea and sing “Happy Birthday, Your Majesty”. It’s probably a treasonable offence to eat a corgi but……..

I’m adding this to Treat Petite, run and hosted this month by Stuart at Cakeyboi and Kat at The Baking Explorer.